Fidesz MEP slams EU for fast-tracking Ukraine’s accession despite unmet criteria

European Union leaders want to fast-track Ukraine into the EU despite the country’s failure to meet accession requirements, an MEP of ruling Fidesz said on Sunday.

Csaba Dömötör said opposition Tisza Party leader Péter Magyar had downplayed Ukraine’s EU membership essentially as a “pseudo-issue”. But the issue was of burning relevance, he said, because EU leaders were intent on fast-tracking Ukraine’s membership even though it failed to meet membership requirements.

The EU wanted to finance Ukraine’s prolonged war efforts and in exchange, it would get fast-tracked EU membership, he added. In his post on Facebook, Dömötör said this was the case even in the absence of any calculations about what effects Ukraine’s membership would have on current EU member states.

Such unresolved questions, he said, included what effect a country teeming with weapons would have on the EU if it were to join. Neither had the impact of Ukraine’s membership on cohesion policy nor the balance of net payers into the EU budget as against beneficiaries been considered, he said.

Dömötör said Ukraine’s accession would result in farmland equaling one-third of the EU total, while many farms were owned by overseas companies seeding GMOs. Nobody, he added, had discussed the situation of minorities, including Hungarians in Transcarpathia. Many billions of euros were at stake, he said. Anyone who rejected Ukraine’s swift accession was accused of “being Putin lapdogs”.

The Fidesz MEP said Magyar wanted “to make people believe that the whole thing doesn’t matter”. This was because Tisza had been allowed to join the European People’s Party by EPP leader Manfred Weber on condition that it must give Ukraine unconditional support, he insisted.

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